Embrace a warm welcome and subzero temps at Winterfest this weekend, Jan 18-20
Last year, Choose Pemberton got the skinny on the history of Winterfest. This year, as the event celebrates its 8th incarnation, we’ve got the Schedule of Events, (thanks to Tourism Pemberton), to launch you into the frozen fun. Winterfest in Pemberton pays homage and respect to the mighty winter. Dance Night, FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 8pm: … Read more
Why celebrate Rivers?
Nature gives us Everything that sustains us … so why not take half a day to give a little back? Stewardship Pemberton make it ridiculously easy, and fun, on Sunday, for BC Rivers Day, with a stream bank restoration project, tree planting, seed ball creation, interpretive walks, communal campfire and free outdoor yoga class. Why … Read more
Pemberton’s Sweetest Spots, as featured in the June issue of Vancouver Magazine
Pick up the June issue of Vancouver Magazine, and you’ll find local writer Lisa Richardson exhorting Vancouverites to flee the city this summer. All they need to do, to find the sweetest spots on Highway 99, is to keep on trucking through Squamish and Whistler. As Johnny Cash sang, “I’ll meet you on further up … Read more
Monthly Film Club gets into gear at the Pemberton Library
Pemberton has some great gathering places and hangout spots (the Skate Park on a sunny day comes to mind) but when the mercury plummets, the snowbanks build and dark arrives promptly each afternoon around 4pm, one of the coziest places to hang is the Pemberton and District Library. And now, thanks to an initiative of … Read more
Everything you need to know about the 7th annual Slow Food Cycle Sunday
Just three weeks away!
Mountain man, river rat, adventure guide – jetboating with Eric Pehota
If you’re going to take a boat up a waterfall like Nairn Falls, where the Green, Soo and Rutherford Rivers combine and carve cataract out of granite, you want it to be piloted by someone with 17 years experience paddling, rafting and jetboating the river systems of Whistler and Pemberton. It’s an added bonus that … Read more
Improve Your IQ at the Pemberton Museum
Brian Brett writes in Trauma Farm: “Not too long ago I encountered a knowledge test. Do you know ten local birds, ten local trees, ten local flowers? Shut your eyes. Now, point to the north, point to the west. What phase is the moon tonight? Where will it rise, and when was the last time … Read more
Canada Day beverage of choice: the Five Mile Caesar
If you’re planning on making a toast to Canada Day on July 1, the go-to drink has to be the Caesar, the closest thing Canada has to a national beverage. Inspired by the ultra-Canadian (?!) dish Spaghetti Vongole (spaghetti with clams), the Calgarian bartender (originally from Montenegro) who invented the cocktail blended lime, Worcestershire sauce, … Read more
Plenty of Races, No Rats. Even Canada Day Starts with a Race in Pemberton.
The home of gruelling Lumpy’s and the “savage” Nimby50, the “tragic” fourth stage of the Four Queens bike comp on July 11, as well as location for one of the first Eco-Challenge’s ever (in 1996. It was too gnarly), in Pemberton even Canada Day starts with a race. The classic 7km Spud Run, celebrating its 12th annual, … Read more
The pecking order in the air goes bird, glider, paraglider, according to Pemberton Soaring Pilot, Rudy Rozsypalek
One of only two commercial gliding operators in Canada, the 17 year old Pemberton Soaring operation provided 1400 gliding experiences during the flying season (Apr-Sept) 2009. In clear weather, with good thermal lift, the glider can go to 10,000 ft, from where passengers can see the Pemberton Ice-cap, Whistler, Black Tusk, the Tantalus Range, the … Read more
